React Context Menu - Basics

The ContextMenu component displays a single- or multi-level context menu. An end user invokes this menu by a right click or a long press. This demo illustrates how to create a simple ContextMenu.

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TS JS

Backend API

import React, { useEffect } from 'react'; import { ContextMenu, type ContextMenuTypes } from 'devextreme-react/context-menu'; import notify from 'devextreme/ui/notify'; import { contextMenuItems as items } from './data.ts'; import type { ContextMenuItem } from './types'; function itemClick(e: ContextMenuTypes.ItemClickEvent<ContextMenuItem>): void { if (!e.itemData?.items) { notify(`The "${e.itemData?.text}" item was clicked`, 'success', 1500); } } function App() { useEffect(() => { const image = document.getElementById('image'); if (image) { image.addEventListener('contextmenu', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); }); } }, []); return ( <> <div className="label"> Right click the image to show available actions: </div> <img id="image" alt="product" src="../../../../images/products/7.png" /> <ContextMenu dataSource={items} width={200} target="#image" onItemClick={itemClick} /> </> ); } export default App;

import React, { useEffect } from 'react'; import { ContextMenu } from 'devextreme-react/context-menu'; import notify from 'devextreme/ui/notify'; import { contextMenuItems as items } from './data.js'; function itemClick(e) { if (!e.itemData?.items) { notify(`The "${e.itemData?.text}" item was clicked`, 'success', 1500); } } function App() { useEffect(() => { const image = document.getElementById('image'); if (image) { image.addEventListener('contextmenu', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); }); } }, []); return ( <> <div className="label">Right click the image to show available actions:</div> <img id="image" alt="product" src="../../../../images/products/7.png" /> <ContextMenu dataSource={items} width={200} target="#image" onItemClick={itemClick} /> </> ); } export default App;

import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import App from './App.tsx'; ReactDOM.render( <App />, document.getElementById('app'), );

import type { ContextMenuItem } from './types'; export const contextMenuItems: ContextMenuItem[] = [ { text: 'Share', items: [ { text: 'Facebook' }, { text: 'Twitter' }], }, { text: 'Download' }, { text: 'Comment' }, { text: 'Favorite' }, ];

export interface ContextMenuItem { text: string; items?: ContextMenuItem[] }

import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import App from './App.js'; ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'));

export const contextMenuItems = [ { text: 'Share', items: [{ text: 'Facebook' }, { text: 'Twitter' }], }, { text: 'Download' }, { text: 'Comment' }, { text: 'Favorite' }, ];

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/26.1.5/css/dx.light.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./bundle.css" /> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <div id="app"></div> </div> <script src="bundles/vendor/react.vendor.js"></script> <script src="./bundle.js"></script> </body> </html>

#image { height: 300px; } .label { color: var(--dx-texteditor-color-label); }